Gulfport's Quotes

#1. My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Natasha Trethewey

#2. Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.

Eugene Kennedy

#3. Bernie could talk a Baptist into burning a Bible,

Pat Conroy

#4. Time is always now. Everybody who has ever thought about his own life knows this. You don't make resolutions about something you are going to do next year. No! You decide to write a book: the book may be finished twenty years from now, but you've got to start it now.

James Baldwin

#5. She'd never before seen moobs quite so active and bouncy.

Nicki Elson

#6. One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

Natasha Trethewey

#7. He tells them he and his wife are keeping the baby, because it's the last link to their little girl or some cowpuckie like that.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#8. When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Natasha Trethewey

#9. For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup.

Hanif Kureishi

#10. Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.

Tanya Masse

#11. We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

Brene Brown

#12. Winter is sitting; autumn is walking; summer is running, but the Spring is flying!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

Natasha Trethewey

#14. I ran my hand over my face in disbelief. One minute I was thinking about the best way to end it all, and the next minute I was headed for Gulfport on a mule. My guardian angel was definitely working overtime.

Manel Loureiro

#15. I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

Natasha Trethewey

#16. Dream about me while you're in school."
"Would that be with or without your false teeth?"
He gave me a slow wink. "They're fangs."
"Kind of sad you have to use props to get the girls."
"It's absolutely tragic, isn't it?" His smile reached his eyes. "Be sure to put me on your prater list.

Jenny B. Jones

#17. There is a sacred potential in every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Its ok to be afraid to fall in love, because without being afraid of it you won,t find the happiness of being loved

Premjit Lourembam

#19. If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

Maisie Williams

#20. She also wasn't the type of woman who made men drool, besides him, and got the attention of every guy in the room, but that was okay because none of them should be fucking looking at her anyway.

R.L. Mathewson